Goodwill auctions 14-karat gold Lego piece for over $18,000
Written by Angie Sharma on March 14, 2024
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A 14-karat gold Lego piece donated to a Pennsylvania Goodwill store was originally priced at $15 — but ended up selling for over $18,000.
Goodwill officials said workers at the store in Du Bois were sorting through a bag of jewelry transferred from the State College Goodwill store when they found the Lego piece, a small Bionicle mask.
You wouldn’t think anything of it. It came in a little old-looking Lego box,” Chad Smith, the vice president of e-commerce and technology for Goodwill in North Central Pennsylvania, told People.
He said the piece was initially listed online for $14.95.
“We didn’t know it was worth anything until people started asking if they could buy it for $1,000,” Smith told WPVI-TV.
Workers researched the piece and discovered it was an extremely rare “Kanohi Hau” mask. Lego created only 30 of the gold masks.
“It was a giveaway, and there were 25, I believe, that were given away and five remained for people who actually worked at Lego.
Source : UPI News
